Re: Tiered pricing - a vendor's perspective

Correct me if I am wrong, but don't the AS/400 tiers also restict the number
of users per teir?
Lik P05 is 5 or 10 users, something like that?

-Oak

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Rehm" <javadisciple@earthlink.net>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 10:20 PM
Subject: Re: Tiered pricing - a vendor's perspective


> On Wednesday 31 October 2001 07:34 pm, Brad Stone wrote:
>
> > It's not emotional, it's a logical point of view from a
> > customer who views it, even as you admitted, as taking
> > advantage of those with bigger machines.  If it were a fact
> > of business, everyone would do it.  And, obviously from
> > response from some vendors, not everyone does.  Only those
> > who do it and need it as a source of income defend it.
>
> It's quite emotional and biased. You represent one vendor pricing model as
if
> it were criminal. A tier priced vendor could point out that user based
> pricing models must be criminal because if you buy the tier priced
package,
> you can run as many users off it as you like. So those "per user" guys are
> ripping you off.
>
> It's just a pricing model, for heaven's sake. I do work for my church for
> free, does that mean I am ripping off my customers by charging them? It is
> simply one way of approching the problem of trying to sell a package for
> enough money to keep the producer afloat (and hopefully profitable) while
> providing a better value to the buyer than the competition.
>
> Believe it or not, "per user" priced software vendors are also trying to
make
> a profit. Yup, no kidding.
>
> > Anyhow, this thread is dead.  I'm done.  (Yes, reply
> > "finally" if you want, but remember that's also just wasting
> > bandwidth.. <bg>)
>
> Ahh, cool. Here I am saying the "last word." I can't think of anything
> profound, though. Sorry.
>
> > Brad
>
> --
> Chris Rehm
> javadisciple@earthlink.net
>
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